The Adventures of Rex and Zendah in the Zodiac

Rex and Zendah lived in the country, on the side of a hill with great pine trees on the top, which Zendah always said sang the sun to sleep at night.Rex thought they were the poles that carried the fairies' wireless messages to the star people. Every morning from their bedroom they could see the sun rise over the hill opposite, and at night they often watched the stars gradually light their lamps--that is if they happened to be awake! In the winter they sometimes crept out of bed to peep at the sparkling Dog star that comes up over the side of the sky to keep watch over the Earth after Orion has drawn his sword and lighted up his belt for every one to see. Rex's birthday was on March twenty-seventh, just when the sun has come into the sign of the Ram. He was quick and merry with bright brown eyes and curly hair, the colour of a ripe chestnut. Some of his boy friends said his hair was as hot as his temper, but he was never angry for long. Zendah's birthday was on November twenty-sixth, when the Sun is in the Sign of the Archer. she was fair-haired, with big blue eyes, and thought it a great shame that her hair was only wavy and not curly like Rex's! Her greatest delight was to ride the little pony given to her by her father, on her twelfth birthday. They both disliked being kept indoors, and they would rather spend all their time racing over the country in search of adventures of one kind or another. In the winter they liked sitting by the fire, when the wind was howling in the pine trees on the hilltop, and listening to the stories about birds and animals that mother told them, or looking through father's telescope and trying to learn all the names of the stars. So that when the Great Adventure came--but there--you must read it for yourselves.